Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.
A kind of audience activating, structured film guessing game in the manipulation of time, sound and image. “At 11:15, weiners. At 21:05, pornography. At 23:30, a duet. Watch the Clock.”
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
A Study Session focused on the thinking of Ailton Krenak – one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement – led by curators and artists Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
What is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
